My sweet daughter after jumping on the trampoline
Growing up in the forest
Discovering the nature, playing with green oak nuts... what else to do on a lazy hot summer evening?
Lost in the forest
Eating fresh apples
The joy of apple harvest in autumn
Harvesting apples first time in life
Looking for mushrooms in the orchard
Another temple, a wooden one. I've seen others more shiny. A monk makes me a sign to come. I follow him with my bare feet. He shows me a stone house, open the lock of the door and he enters. I follow him. Inside there was a skeleton. A real one, with teaching purpose. He then shows me another locked room from another cottage, no windows and just a chimney with a fan on top, going outside. The room is painted with Buddhist scenes making you feel that everything was real. We go out, he shows me the space under the temple. A big place where you can lose yourself. There is my hospitable monk.
Beeing tired afer a day of walking I took a path that was less populated. A boy was playing alone and suddenly saw me. He was there with his parents selling chains of flowers for people visiting the temple. While I was looking at him, he brought me a chain of jasmine and put it around my neck. I felt like receiveng a dimond neckless. The flowers were smelling incredibly and I brought them home as a precious souvenir.
Long-neck women or girafe women are part of Padaung tribe in Myanmar.
I was photographing people around when an English woman stopped me and told to go and visit a wooden house and look for a lovely little girl there. It was a bit weird why she gave me this info, but I felt I had to follow her advice. The moment I entered in a big room where some women were sewing in a very traditional way, a little girl almost jumped on my way with a happy smile. It was like she was waiting for me for a long time. It was like the sun rising in the morning. Her mother, a worker in this lotus and silk traditional factory, put her on a big table on the side, that was looking more as a theatre scene. She danced for me almost for 15 minutes, radiating a happiness that you could rarely find. Photographing her it was not anymore my thing. I was just looking at her joy and let myself enter into her world. When it was the time for me to leave, she felt and she stopped, I grabbed the camera and make her some photos. That joy or that innocence from her eyes is difficult to be forgotten.
We have found this old lady almost waiting for us. She lead us to an ancient place and took a sit. Although she was wearing a broken shirt on the back and her wrinkles were showing her age, she revealed an incredible beautiful smile with no retention. A smile coming from the heart. She was feeling like a star and she was actually one. Her happy mood was contagious. What an incredible lady!
This little guy was the boy of a man who was selling all sort of touristic things. You could have easily notice that they were struggling with their daily life. However, this little boy was playing on a smartphone. Probably they had one for the entire family, but nevertheless you couldn’t pass without seeing the discrepancy.
From all the children I've seen in Myanmar, this little one was by far the dirtiest. I met her in front of a temple gate with her mother, who was as dirty as her daughter. I offered her some sweets and she immediately took them and went back to her sit. I left the place with a sad feeling. However, when I was back home I had a chat with my 6yo daughter about this photo:Me: : What do you think about this little girl? Is she poor or rich? She: She is rich !” Me: How did you reach to this conclusion?She: Look mommy, she has money!To such an direct and blunt answer I was speechless.
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Looking for the sunrise in UK
My elderflower girl
Pure love between siblings
When grass is bigger than you, you raise your hands
Theo on his favorite pipe in the forest.
Dubi-Dubi bear, the story teller
Walking in the wood to find new paths is a favorite activity
You could have read on the face of almost all monks I saw in Myanmar the feeling of peace and tranquility except for one who was different.
Colors is something that you'll find everywhere in Myanmar. No matter how rich or poor, everybody wears colors. Long neck tribe makes no exception.
After the monks line up for lunch, the tourists spread all over the city. Few locals continue their daily routine. Exactly like this mom begging to feed her child.
